Alexander Dölecke (University of Münster): I, Me, and the Others – Reflections upon the Development of Identity and Social Control as a Basis for the Literary Processing of (auto)Biographical Experiences

Marcin Jarząbek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków): Categories to Describe the Scope of Life–Oral History: Private Identity in the Public Historiographical Discourse

Octavian Silvestru (CEU, Budapest): Biography as politics. The use and abuse of the biographies of Mircea Eliade.

Mauve Carbonell (Robert Schuman Centre for European Studies and Research, Luxembourg): The European Union’s Search for Legitimacy. The Myth of the “Perfect European High Official”: a Biographical Reconstructution (1952-1967)

Lars Fredrik Stöcker (EUI, Florence): Refugee Biographies and their Impact on Political Activity in Exile: Estonians and Poles in Cold War Sweden and the Generational Shift of the 1960s

Alexandra Wangler (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences): The Dynamics of National Identity Formation of the Ukrainian Minority in Poland: Mapping the Meaning of Home of the Third Generation

Victoria Harms (University of Pittsburgh): Living Central Europe: Intellectuals from West Germany and Hungary